https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Irrational_Expectations;_or,_How_Economics_and_the_Post-Industrial_World_Failed_Philip_K._Dick&feed=atom&action=history Irrational Expectations; or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick - Revision history 2024-03-29T07:25:16Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.32.1 https://clockworks2.org/wiki/index.php?title=Irrational_Expectations;_or,_How_Economics_and_the_Post-Industrial_World_Failed_Philip_K._Dick&diff=4213&oldid=prev Erlichrd: Created page with "'''Rabkin, Eric S. "Irrational Expectations; or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick."''' ''SFS'' #45, 15.2 (July 1988): 161-72. Category: Lite..." 2014-10-13T23:02:43Z <p>Created page with &quot;&#039;&#039;&#039;Rabkin, Eric S. &quot;Irrational Expectations; or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick.&quot;&#039;&#039;&#039; &#039;&#039;SFS&#039;&#039; #45, 15.2 (July 1988): 161-72. Category: Lite...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Rabkin, Eric S. &quot;Irrational Expectations; or, How Economics and the Post-Industrial World Failed Philip K. Dick.&quot;''' ''SFS'' #45, 15.2 (July 1988): 161-72. [[Category: Literary Criticism]] <br /> <br /> Important essay arguing that even &quot;as rational industrialism mass-produces its products, so it forces those working within that system to fragment and rationalize their labor—and even their thoughts—into replicable, typically identical units. Dick repeatedly dramatized this 'intellectual desolation' [as Karl Marx put it] by focusing . . . on beings who were themselves artificially produced, machine people he typically called androids&quot; (163). Collects Dickian quotes on mechanized humans and discusses ''Do Androids Dream . . .'', &quot;The Electric Ant,&quot; ''The Man in the High Castle, Palmer Eldritch'', &quot;Autofac,&quot; ''A Scanner Darkly'', and ''VALIS''—see Dick citations under Fiction.</div> Erlichrd